A Voice From Mauthausen (2014)
One of the first ‘frogmen’ in the Navy Reserve fights to survive missions behind enemy lines and his own capture at the Mauthausen concentration camp.
Top billed cast
- Tim TuckerJack Hedrick Taylor
- Demitrio FraustoBailiff (voice)
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